France’s Airbus has won a decade-long struggle to land a manufacturing contract with the US military worth $35 billion. The announcement was made by the U.S. Air Force last Friday.
Under the landmark contract, Northrop Grumman and the European consortium and parent of Airbus, European Aeronautic Defense & Space, or (EADS) would build a fleet of 179 planes, based on the existing French plane A...